It takes a two-thirds majority vote in both House and Senate chambers to advance a constitutional amendment proposal to the election ballot.

"This constitutional amendment is necessary to ensure that the money from the sporting goods tax goes toward the purpose for which it was intended," Hilderbran said.

Hilderbran wants to dedicate all the money from the sporting goods tax — more than $100 million per year — toward state and local parks, many of which have suffered neglect because of money shortages.

State lawmakers dedicated the sales tax on sporting goods for state parks in 1993 but capped that amount two years later at $32 million. Last year, lawmakers used only $20 million of the tax's proceeds on state and local parks. More than $80 million from the tax flowed into the state's general revenue fund.